Mystery solved: new study shows link between hot and dry weather and air quality in Korea
E-Mail IMAGE: Air pollution from human activities and dry, sunny weather combine to increase surface ozone concentrations, and ozone emissions are very harmful to health view more Credit: Daniel Moqvist on Unsplash While ozone in the stratosphere acts as barrier that protects the Earth from ultraviolet radiation, ground-level (or tropospheric) ozone is a dangerous trace gas that can cause serious health problems. This ozone is the result of photochemical reactions between nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds, which are two major air pollutants. Over the past decades, Ea...
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